Willa Muir bola škótska prozaička, esejistka a prekladateľka, ktorá sa vo svojej tvorbe venovala feministickým témam a prekladom významných diel nemeckých autorov. Jej eseje skúmajú ženskú otázku s hĺbkou a prenikavosťou. Muir však nie je len teoretickou mysliteľkou; jej preklady oživujú diela takých autorov ako Franz Kafka pre nové publikum. Jej literárny odkaz spočíva v prepojení feministickej kritiky s prekladateľským umením, čím obohacuje literárnu krajinu.
The Usurpers, was based on the diaries Willa Muir kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband was the Director the British Institute there. Under the guise of Utopians in Slavomania, it offers acute, humorous and sometimes acerbic observations on relations among the British and between them and their Czech allies and opponents.
This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.
From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti described as "one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century." Kafka's stories, argues Borges in his foreword, are superior even to his novels, which is why this collection "gives us the full dimesion of this unique writer.' J.A Underwood's acclaimed translation gives the reader all the chilling atmosphere of Kafka's darkly comic universe, as reflected in the commanding precision of his language.
Dejová línia prózy udržiava čitateľa v neustálom napätí a neistote. Veď akoby ste sa cítili, keby vás, tak ako protagonistu Jozefa K., v jedno ráno zobudili neznámi muži a odviedli nasledujúci deň na výsluch? V prípade Jozefa K. však nejde o nijaký žart, stáva sa súčasťou súdneho procesu, v ktorom figuruje ako obvinený.
Slavný román pražského rodáka doplněný o fragmenty, škrty a varianty. Šestý svazek díla Franze Kafky.
Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.